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Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand
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Pages 40-41
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(27) January 21st, 1935
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Dear Bahá'í Sister,
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Shoghi Effendi has just been in receipt of your kind
letter of the fourteenth of December last, and has read its
contents with deep interest and gratification. It made him so
happy, indeed, to learn that you are pursuing your activities
for the Faith with such steadfastness and self-sacrifice, and
also that through your beautiful and loving spirit those members
of your family who have not yet embraced the Faith are
being gradually attracted to it. He is ardently entreating
Bahá'u'lláh that through your inspiration and guidance their
interest in the Teachings may wax stronger and lead them to
eventually espouse His Cause.
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With reference to the suggestion made by Mr Alexander
[1]
for taking a record of the Guardian's voice, he wishes
me to inform you that although he fully appreciates the spirit
in which this and similar suggestions are made to him he is,
nevertheless, extremely reluctant that the believers should
give any prominence to his writings, specially in the meetings
which, he is firmly convinced, should be chiefly devoted
to the reading and study of the writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the
Master.
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In closing will you kindly convey his greetings and
appreciation to all the friends in Auckland, and particularly to
the members of your family who, he hopes, will be assisted
and sustained in their labours for the spread of the Message.
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Yours in His Service,
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H. Rabbani
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[From the Guardian:]
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Dear and valued co-worker:
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I am deeply grateful for the services you are so devotedly
rendering and the efforts you are so diligently exerting
for the promotion of our beloved Faith. I will continue to
pray for you and your dear co-workers from the depths of my
heart.
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Your true brother,
Shoghi
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Notes
1. [Dick Alexander was the fiance of Miss Vera Dewing. (Department of the Secretariat, Universal House of Justice. August 16th, 1979)]
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